Kunlun

K'un-lun Kūnlún English Kunlun Mountains thumb|right|250px|A peak in the Kunlun range (1871) Alternative forms en Kun Lun, en K'un-lun, en Kuen Lun, en Kwenlun, en Cunlun Etymology From the en cmn 崑崙 and 崑崙山, with the character zh 山 being an ambiguous reference to any raised place, inclusive of islands, hills, mountains, and mountain ranges. The characters zh 崑崙 are phono-semantic compounds adding zh 山 as a semantic component (形旁) to the characters 昆 and 侖, which were presumably also homophones for Kunlun in Old Chinese—Zhengzhang Shangfang Zhengzhang's reconstructed pronunciation being /*kuːn.run/—but leaving its further development or original meaning uncertain. See also the Kunlun (mythology)#Name Name section of the Wikipedia entry on the mythological Kunlun. Pronunciation ko͝on′lo͝on′Kunlun 991 2 Kunlun (ko͝on′lo͝on′),Sometimes spelled Kuenlun and Kwenlun.Kun·lun 394 2 Kun·lun (ko͝on′lo͝on′), en Kun lun Proper noun en mountain range ar/Tibet,Xinjiang ; mountain range p/Qinghai A <<mountain range>> in China forming the border between the Tarim Basin to its north and the Tibetan Plateau to its south, extending across the Chinese <<ar:pref/Xinjiang,Tibet>> and <<p:pref/Qinghai>>. en w:C. Bernard Rutley 1822 Zong The Forbidden Land https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501783/ w:Blackie & Son 605997989 90 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.501783/page/n88/ Crossing the Altyn Tagh had proved hard enough, but no sooner had the travellers left those mountains behind and crossed the border into Tibet than they had plunged into the recesses of the Kunlun Mountains. en 1944 w:Bernhard Haurwitz; w:James M. Austin Asia (Including Russia) Climatology https://archive.org/details/climatology0000bern/ w:McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. 348535 269 https://archive.org/details/climatology0000bern/page/269/ Between the Himalaya and the Kunlun to the north lies the very high plateau of Tibet, which is traversed by a number of smaller mountain chains. en 1978 Hugh McLeave A Borderline Case https://archive.org/details/borderlinecase00mcle/ New York w:Charles Scribner's Sons 0-684-15803-5 78-11576 4498058 148 https://archive.org/details/borderlinecase00mcle/page/148/ Brodie lent only half an ear. He was eying the wall map, comparing it with what he had seen from the chopper. He picked out the three nearest towns—Yarkand, Karghalik, and Kokyar—running north to south. Everything inside a huge semicircle bounded on the west by the Yarkand River and the southeast by the Kunlun Mountains was shaded. That must be the barbed-wire zone guarded by the army. en 30 August 2014 First ascent of Kokodak Dome https://web.archive.org/web/20220809215940/https://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/index.html%3Fp=23479.html 09 August 2022 https://blogs.dw.com/adventuresports/index.html%3Fp%3D23479.html w:Deutsche Welle I joined an AMICAL expedition to the previous unclimbed 7129-meter-high Kokodak Dome, also known as Kokodak II. The peak is part of the Kongur Range in the Kunlun mountains in the region Xinjiang. en December 3, 2021 Liesl Schillinger w:Sylvain Tesson Books That Satisfy Your Yearning for Far-Off Places w:The New York Times https://web.archive.org/web/20211203101033/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/12/03/books/review/travel-books.html 03 December 2021 0362-4331 1645522 Travel Observing Lake Yaniugol, rising high in the steppe, he writes: “It settled like a sacred host of jade upon the sand. It appeared to us at twilight, in the hollow of a ledge, flanked to the north by the sharp incisors of the Kunlun peaks soaring to 6,000 meters, and to the south by the Changtang. Behind this shimmering disk, the secret plateau.” en en Chinese mythology en A <<mythical mountain>> or mountain range somewhere west of the North China Plain believed to be the home of Xiwangmu and the Peaches of Immortality, as well as other gods and Taoist immortals, and previously believed to help support the dome of the sky. 3 A Generall Collection and Historical Representation of the Iesuites Entrance into Iapon and China, vntill Their Admission in the Royall Citie of Nanquin V 340 the Yellow Riuer is the other famous Riuer of that Kingdome, in greatneſſe and note, which ariſesth without the Kingdome to the Weſt, out of the Hill Cunlun, conjectured to bee the ſame whence Ganges ariſeth, or one neere to it. en Derived terms en Kunlun Time Zone Translations Chinese mountain range Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 崑崙 Kūnlún, cmn 崑崙山 Kūnlúnshān Kyrgyz: Arabic: ky قۇن-لۇن توو Cyrillic: ky Кунь-Лунь Тоо Manchu: mnc ᡴᡠᠨ ᠯᡠᠨ ᡧᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ Mongolian: Classical: mn ᠺᠦᠨᠯᠦᠨ Cyrillic: mn Кунлүн, mn Хөндлөн Уул Tibetan: bo ཁུ་ནུ་རི་རྒྱུད Uyghur: ug كۇئېنلۇن تاغ تىزمىسى‎, ug قۇرۇم تاغ تىزمىسى‎‎ Mythological Chinese mountain or mountain range Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 崑崙 Kūnlún, cmn 崑崙山 Kūnlúnshān Manchu: mnc ᡴᡠᠨ ᠯᡠᠨ ᡧᠠᠨ ᠠᠯᡳᠨ References Further reading Kunlun, Kun Lun, K'un-lun, K'unlun, Kun-lun, Kuen Lun, Kwenlun pn Kunlun Shan en 1998 Kunlun Mountains Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1631 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1631/ 1 Sometimes spelled Kwenlun Mts. en 2-syllable words